Returns Windows system information.
WinMetrics (request#)
(i) request# see below.
(i) see below.
The request# parameter determines what piece of information will be returned.
Request |
Return Value |
-7 |
2 if WOW64 (32-bit emulation under 64-bit Windows), 0 otherwise. |
-6 |
pixels per horizontal dialog unit |
-5 |
pixels per vertical dialog unit |
-4 |
Windows Platform |
-3 |
WIL EXE type |
-2 |
WIL platform |
-1 |
Number of colors supported by video driver |
0 |
Width of screen, in pixels |
1 |
Height of screen, in pixels |
2 |
Width of arrow on vertical scrollbar |
3 |
Height of arrow on horizontal scrollbar |
4 |
Height of window title bar |
5 |
Width of window border lines |
6 |
Height of window border lines |
7 |
Width of dialog box frame |
8 |
Height of dialog box frame |
9 |
Height of thumb box on scrollbar |
10 |
Width of thumb box on scrollbar |
11 |
Width of an icon |
12 |
Height of an icon |
13 |
Width of a cursor |
14 |
Height of a cursor |
15 |
Height of a one line menu bar |
16 |
Width of full screen window |
17 |
Height of a full screen window |
18 |
Height of Kanji window (Japanese) |
19 |
Is a mouse present (0 = No, 1 = Yes) |
20 |
Height of arrow on vertical scrollbar |
21 |
Width of arrow on horizontal scrollbar |
22 |
Is debug version of Windows running (0 = No, 1 = Yes) |
23 |
Are Left and Right mouse buttons swapped (0 = No, 1 = Yes) |
24 |
Reserved |
25 |
Reserved |
26 |
Reserved |
27 |
Reserved |
28 |
Minimum width of a window |
29 |
Minimum height of a window |
30 |
Width of bitmaps in title bar |
31 |
Height of bitmaps in title bar |
32 |
Width of sizeable window frame |
33 |
Height of sizeable window frame |
34 |
Minimum tracking width of a window |
35 |
Minimum tracking height of a window |
41 |
@TRUE or non-zero if the Microsoft Windows for Pen computing extensions are installed; zero, or @FALSE, otherwise. |
42 |
@TRUE or non-zero if the double-byte character set (DBCS) version of USER.EXE is installed; @FALSE, or zero otherwise. |
43 |
Number of buttons on mouse, or zero if no mouse is installed. |
44 |
Not supported. |
63 |
Not supported. |
67 |
Not supported. |
70 |
@TRUE or non-zero if the user requires an application to present information visually in situations where it would otherwise present the information only in audible form; @FALSE, or zero, otherwise. |
73 |
Not supported. |
74 |
Not supported. |
75 |
(WinNT 4.0+) Non-zero if a mouse with a wheel is installed, zero otherwise |
76 |
(Win2000 and newer) Coordinates for the left side of the virtual screen. (A virtual screen is actually the bounding rectangle of ALL the monitors.) |
77 |
(Win2000 and newer) Coordinates for the top of the virtual screen. (A virtual screen is actually the bounding rectangle of ALL the monitors.) |
78 |
(Win2000 and newer) Width of the virtual screen, in pixels. (A virtual screen is actually the bounding rectangle of ALL the monitors.) |
79 |
(Win2000 and newer) Height of the virtual screen, in pixels. (A virtual screen is actually the bounding rectangle of ALL the monitors.) |
80 |
(Win2000 and newer) Number of display monitors on the desktop |
81 |
(Win2000and newer ) Non-zero if all the display monitors have the same color format, zero otherwise. |
There are a number of other request #'s which can be specified, but are of limited usefulness and therefore not documented here. Details on these can be obtained from Win32 programming references, available from Microsoft and others.
mouse = "NO" If WinMetrics(19) == 1 Then mouse = "YES" Message("Is there a mouse installed?", mouse)
Environment, MouseInfo, WinSysInfo, NetInfo, SysParamInfo, WinResources